Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Welcome to the Heritage Gazetteer for Cyprus (HGC).
Cyprus has played an important role in the history of many cultures. It
has been described in many languages and several different alphabets,
over several millennia. This can make identification of places
difficult; and it means that interesting historical information may be
dispersed, and hard to access.

The overall aim of this project, therefore, is to facilitate the use
of a wide range of expertise in recording the historic geography of
Cyprus; the resource has been designed to record all locations/monuments
attested as in use in any period up to 1882, and all names used for
these locations on the island, in any language or period up to the
establishment of standard reference systems. Modern administrative
districts are named according to the Οδηγός Τυποποίησης Ονομάτων (Nicosia, 2007, available online). Modern toponyms are given in the form used in the Complete Gazetteer of Cyprus (Nicosia, 1987, pp 1-1301 available online: see also the list of Towns and Villages of Cyprus, pp. 1303-1669).

The essential requirement for inclusion in the HGC is, for any location not yet in the Gazetteer, a georeference, a name and a dated reference; and for any name
not yet in the Gazetteer, a reference to an example of its use in an
accessible document, and a date. There is provision for contributors to
register, and for all contributions to be peer-reviewed before
publication.

This collection of data was originally intended to serve as a tool
and support for the author’s doctoral dissertation,
dealing with the architecture of these buildings and its
possible interpretations in the context of the island’s economy,
demography and culture [Papacostas (1999a)];
but it is being made available online as an inventory to facilitate
further research on the monuments.
New discoveries constantly add to the corpus of relevant
monuments, as does further study of the architecture and fresco
decoration
of structures
hitherto ascribed to or appearing at first sight to date
from later centuries. While this collection, therefore, is neither
comprehensive, nor complete,
largely representing the state of scholarship at the turn
of the millennium, we hope that it can be of use to colleagues.
In particular, we would encourage the use of the urls
provided here to accompany relevant materials, particularly images,
that they may be publishing online.

We are extremely grateful to the A.G. Leventis Foundation, whose generous support has made this publication possible.

How to citeThe full bibliographical description of this publication: Tassos Papacostas,
Inventory of Byzantine Churches on Cyprus, London 2015, ISBN
978-1-897747-31-5, available at http://ibcc.dighum.kcl.ac.uk/ This should be
abbreviated to iBCC - so Church 15 can be described as iBCC 15,
available at http://ibcc.dighum.kcl.ac.uk/entries/b0015.html

For over 30 years, the Institute for Biblical Research has offered to
evangelical biblical scholars and Ph.D. students a venue for creative,
reflective and serious biblical scholarship. One might not have
suspected such an auspicious outcome back in 1970, when a few biblical
scholars gathered for lunch during the SBL meeting in New York. The
meeting was called by E. Earle Ellis, the founding visionary behind IBR.
He dreamed of a North American based residential reference library
(non-lending) similar to that of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical
Research, Tyndale House Library, Cambridge, England. For the following
three years, a small group calling themselves the Tyndale Committee
discussed the viability of creating a residential library. In the end,
they were persuaded that the library vision required a societal matrix
to realize its goal, and thus in 1973 was birthed the Institute for
Biblical Research...

...Publications were a primary concern for IBR. In 1989 it launched the
Bulletin for Biblical Research (BBR) under the editorship of Bruce
Chilton, published by Eisenbrauns. The first journal was published in
1991. In 1994, Craig Evans continued as editor and advanced BBR to a
bi-annual journal. In 2005, Richard S. Hess took over editorial
responsibilities, significantly enlarging the journal. The BBR
Supplement Series began in 2007 with the appearance of its first
monograph.

These data-files are the product of a two-year research project
(ROMURBITAL) to create an analytical database and GIS of 583
(proto-)urban centres on the Italian peninsula that existed between 350
BCE and 300 CE. The project was undertaken by Dr. Jamie Sewell as a
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (Project No. 300969) at the
Archaeology Department of Durham University between 2012 and 2014
(Scientist in Charge: Dr. Robert Witcher).
For a full description of the research aims, selection criteria and
methodological development of the project, see the Internet Archaeology
article:
Sewell, J.P and Witcher, R. (2015). Urbanism
in Ancient Peninsular Italy: developing a methodology for a database
analysis of higher order settlements (350 BCE to 300 CE), Internet Archaeology40.

Monday, June 29, 2015

World Heritage is the official UNESCO publication from the
World Heritage Centre. Featuring in-depth articles on cultural and
natural World Heritage sites. The quarterly review is produced in
English, French and Spanish.

Cultural World Heritage sites are representative of the creativity
and genius of humanity. While World Heritage belongs to everyone, and we
share the responsibility to protect it, each site embodies the history,
values, beliefs and skills of the people ...

The peer reviewed journal seeks to gather current developments in the
field of Digital Art History world-wide and to foster discourse on the
subject both from Art History and Information Science.
The Digital Age has revolutionized economy, society and our private
lives. For decades now, digitalization has also touched most branches of
the humanities. With the rising importance of the so called Digital
Humanities, Art History is at the brink of new ways of accessing its
material and gaining unprecedented insights.

Many approaches are currently evolving in the international sphere of
Art History and many questions still remain unanswered: What
requirements does Art History have towards Information Technology? What
projects do exist that can serve as best practice? Which direction does
Art History go from here? How can we build an international community to
reach our shared goals in research?

Thus, the "International Journal of Digital Art History" (DAH) gives
authors in this field the opportunity to reach a wider audience, spark a
discussion on the future of our discipline and generate an
international and interdisciplinary network of scholars and
practitioners.

The journal is edited in order to gather articles around a common theme
in each issue. In addition it is peer reviewd by at least two reviewers
in a double-blind process. It is published online and in print.
Contributions are welcome. For information on the current
Call for Manuscripts and further details for authors, please see the respective pages on this website.

Weeda, Leendert

Open Access

Aims and Scope

In
the book titled Vergil's political commentary in Eclogues, Georgics and
Aeneid, the author examines Vergil’s political views by analyzing the
whole of the poet’s work. He introduces the notion of the functional
model suggesting that the poet often used this instrument when making a
political statement. New interpretations of a number of the Eclogues and
passages of the Georgics and the Aeneid are suggested and the author
concludes that Vergil’s political engagement is visible in much of his
work. During his whole career the poet was consistent in his views on
several major political themes. These varied from, the distress caused
by the violation of the countryside during and after the expropriations
in the 40s B.C., to the horrors of the civil war and the violence of war
in general, and the necessity of strong leadership. Vergil hoped and
expected that Octavian would establish peace and order, and he supported
a form of hereditary kingship for which he considered Octavian a
suitable candidate. He held Cleopatra in high regard, and he appreciated
a more meaningful role for women in society. Vergil wrote poetry that
supported Augustus, but he had also the courage to criticize Octavian
and his policies. He was a commentator with an independent mind and was
not a member of Augustus’ putative propaganda machine.

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Africa’s rock art is as diverse as the continent
itself. In 2013, the African rock art image project team began
cataloguing around 25,000 digital photographs of rock art from across
Africa –
originally from the Trust for African Rock Art (TARA) – through
generous
support from the Arcadia Fund.

Combining a wide range of research from the British
Museum, TARA and colleagues in Africa, the project is cataloguing and
digitally preserving African rock art, ensuring global open access well
into the future.

Friday, June 26, 2015

The goal of Biblical Studies Online is to provide both
biblical scholars and the interested wider public with ease of access to
quality biblical scholarship, as it comes available online.

More and more biblical scholarship is being published open-access and
online – not only in traditional book form, but in a variety of media,
including videos and sound recordings. In addition there are many more
free New Testament and free Old Testament materials available to read.

Unfortunately, it is often difficult to locate these resources on the
internet, and sometimes difficult for those less experienced with
biblical scholarship to distinguish worthwhile material from that which
is inaccurate or even grossly misleading. And when it comes to the
Bible, there is no shortage of the latter to be found. For this reason, Biblical Studies Online offers a gateway for the dissemination and publicizing of worthwhile open-access, online biblical scholarship.

To search for online Biblical Studies resources, please either click
on the category in which you are interested, or use the search-box, in
the column to the right.Biblical Studies Online is maintained by:

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.